What do groundskeepers and maintenance workers do on the job? The grounds keeping and maintenance crew do a variety of things to keep up and make this school look amazing. The head groundskeeper of the school said “I love my job and it is the best job out there”. The groundskeepers here make the school look great. One of the biggest and most important part of a grounds keeping and making a school look like is mowing the grass. Kurt McCaulley stated “I mow everyday”, this means that is the most important job for them to do to keep the ground looking nice. Along with mowing the grass another big part of keeping it nice is trimming and edging, they have to trim the edges of the sidewalk so the walk way does not look bad. When it is snowing the
grounds keeping has to remove the snow and lay salt down on the ground to thaw the ice so no teachers or students get hurt. When these jobs are done they maintenance crew also works on the school buses if they have broken down. Not all of the time the grounds keepers mow grass and paint lines on the fields. They have to do other jobs such as lay concrete for the tiling so the fields wont flood. When there is a big game for sports such as football, baseball or soccer the head grounds keeper Kurt McCaulley has to move the benches from one field to another with the tractor they have. The job that the crew has and it is their least favorite is putting up fences and netting. They have to put new fencing on every so often and the crew also has to put up nets for the soccer field. The final job that the crew has to do is paint the fields, drag the infield and aerate the fields. When there is a football game Mr. Kurt McCaulley and Mike Mumm paint the yard lines and the logo on the middle of the field every day before the big game. When there is a baseball game Kurt has to make sure that the infield doesn’t have any bumps and is good play on, when he makes sure those are done he drags it with a matt to smooth it out. Finally Kurt has to aerate the field every so often so the field has small holes and the grass is thicker and fuller. Grounds keepers do a lot of things to this beautiful school, overall the main jobs is Mow grass, Paint lines and lay concrete. They take great pride in the work they do here. Mowing is the best thing to make the school look nice.
This case study is a situation from Case Studies on Educational Administration (Kowalski, 2011). The background information is listed below.
Most of the time the reason people have yard sales is to either get rid of things, to clean up or organize, or to raise money. Knowing how to prepare a yard sale is very important because every once in a while, it’s good to get rid of some things. Maybe one’s storage space, or home is beginning to get cramped, and she is running out of space, so she needs to sale some of her belongings. One can set up their yard sale many ways. To set up a yard sale, she should clean out her belongings, price her items, and find a place to have a yard sale.
The role of the custodian is to maintain a clean and safe building as well as environment for the children and staff. The custodian may perform minor repairs and maintain lawn care. The advantage of having a custodian on payroll is that they are at the facility on a daily basis. He or she can address any unforeseen maintanence problems that occur. The custodian in most cases their hourly wage may be less than a contractors and when work needs to be done your facility won’t have to look for someone to do the job.
The classroom I observed Tommy is in has about 20 children and two teachers. The age range for this class is between 36- 48 months and Tommy is 47 months. The purpose of this observation is to assess the child to see what appropriate skills based on their age they are able to accomplish. If children are struggling to meet the appropriate brackets the teacher is to set goals that are to help the children become successful and accomplish the goals. In this paper I will be talking about the Carolina Assessment Log and what SMART goals I think may be appropriate for Tommy.
Kevin seems to enjoy the guitar and continues to be actively engaged in classroom activities. Presently, we’re working on keeping a steady beat while playing different strumming patterns (beat/rhythm discrimination). I look forward to working with Kevin in the second half of the school year.
So, how does a preservice teacher learn to do that? Same as with any other skill - practice. And talking with and observing colleagues. And taking classes.
offered to have a seat and enjoy eating some brunch, which consisted of fresh fruit and granola. I packed extra food for each meal for any who offered to eat with me. She accepted and sat with me, delighted with the idea of brunch and talking about classes. Soon after many others, who were both strangers and friends, stopped by to chat. The likes of which included, 3 Stetson tours, filled with parents asking Paloma and I question about the school and our brunch, multiple faculty members walking by asking what it was we were doing, other Stetson students, and members of University Administration. I informed Paloma I would be leaving at 11:30, as she had stayed till the end of brunch, and left to go to class. After cleaning up the picnic-style
Over the course of the semester, we were asked to maintain a record of our observations of comprehension and composition learning tasks that take place in our classrooms. Luckily, I was placed in the Leighton Learning Community so I attend Leighton elementary school, right down the road from the college. This is an amazing experience because I am able to spend a lot more time inside the classroom, which also results in me observing many things I would not normally in a regular block two placement. Instead of the standard one day a week for three hours, I spend my entire day at the school on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Have you ever realized that playgrounds help shape us into the people we become and they are the first place we experience socialization? Playgrounds aren’t just a place for children but for every age, ethnic background and so forth. They are the place where we go to hang out with friends, watch our children, play games, have birthday parties, listen to music, and just to observe others. The paper I am going to write consists of a few things I observed while watching my daughter.
Mrs. Leanne Kenny, the high school choir director, was a delight to observe. She has a humorous personality and a playful attitude. Her classroom has a very safe feeling when you walk into the room. This is her first year teaching at White County High School, and it is her first time having a college student observing her teaching. With that all being said, I feel like every time I entered her class, she was being her natural self and not pretending in any way. She was always honest, and I feel like I learned a lot more through her transparency.
When my mentor provides instruction that promotes student’s engagement learning. When she used an experiment dealing with liquids. She had a in three small equal cups half way full of water and three different coloring red, blue and yellow. When she a drop of each color into a cup of pure water the water changes the color. The students were so amazed that could understand what had happen. My mentor starts to explain no matter if you add a color to water it remains a liquid. Then she starts to complain the colors red and yellow turn orange. Blue and red made purple and yellow and blue made green. The students where surprise they couldn’t believe what had happen so the teacher told them no matter if you mix the colors it remains a liquid. And
Reading: Shawn comes to school regularly. He is always prepared with the school supplies that he needs for the day. He enjoys reading, either independently or with a partner. Shawn does well with answering open-ended questions and discussing information about what is being read, but, when he needs to answer questions on an assessment independently, he does not always perform to his potential. He has been taught reading comprehension strategies (i.e. RUNNERS, annotating, rereading, underlining key words, asking questions, making connections, visualizing etc.) and he uses these strategies when he is reminded to help him answer abstract comprehension questions.
All children should enter school ready to learn. In order for children to be ready for school at Kindergarten, the critical building blocks of Healthy Development, Strong Families, and Early Learning need be put in place during early childhood.
This week, I observed an Intermediate Reading/Writing class at Global Launch. There were 12 students in the classroom, 8 males and 4 females. The students were from different cultural background. More than a half of them were from Middle East. The others were from Japan, China, Ecuador, and Vietnam. The lesson was on paraphrasing. The teacher had given a handout and homework about paraphrasing in the previous week.
In a Grade two classroom a teacher has incorporated a show and tell session each to provide the students with the opportunity to share their current interests and knowledge on topics of their choice, promoting student-centred learning and social interactions within the class (Biermeier, 2015; Blaise, 2011). Today is Eliza's show and tell, the teacher approaches Eliza's parents at morning drop off to see how Eliza and the family are settling into their new home. With consideration to Bronfenbrenner’s (1994) ecological systems model, the teacher understands that mesosystems are the connections between each setting that includes the child, school, and home and that these relationships have an influence upon a child’s learning. During her conversation with Eliza’s parents, the teacher is informed that over the weekend Eliza found a cat skeleton underneath her new house and she has proudly brought it to share with the class. Whilst being shocked at Eliza’s choice of show and tell, the teacher